man this smells of viral. But the puppies are sooo cute.

Ahh, and with a little sleuthing it most certainly is. The ip associated with this account is one known to be used by google employees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:65.57.245.11

This is in violation of posting guidelines, and come on you guys have a HUGE budget, you could throw us a little cheddar for promotions.

*ban

Trev has been nominated for banination by gold star member James Roe. This may be due to abuse or violations of the posting guidelines. If this nomination is seconded, the account will be permanently disabled.

*ban

Trev has been seconded for banination by gold star member farhad2000. This account will now be disabled. If you would like to appeal this banination, Trev, you may contact the administrators.

Going to leave this in the blog, even though it's already been decided. Grumble google, grumble.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

With regard to viral marketing and Google, you have to ask "why?" Many people think they are the Internets. (mostly people who use the term "internets" without irony)

Still, marketing and Google leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It's like the Queen coming cheer at her own parade.

I talked to trevor, he was pretty repentant in that this isn't from his department in google and he was posting it so that his friends video might get some more views. I reinstated his account, but think that this still probably cuts the line too close to self linking. With that in mind I am going to leave the video here.

So much for "Do no evil"...

boy, that vid was lame. I guess that's the trouble with pushing viral stuff, people are convinced stuff is good but can't be objective. OTOH if it's good it'll find an audience..with some promotional pump-priming. It's a fine line between promotion and spamming.

((I'm haunted by the secret fear my writing will turn to ChogieSpeak..))

Wow, that was just lame - commenting on the video itself.

On a viral level, it's, um, lamer...?

oh god.. that was the most cutest video ever. They will rule the viral airwaves. I can't believe to say this, but I would so vote for this, even knowing it is viral and self-posted and from a large mega-corp and not even suzie youtuber.

It was that festive. I feel like ebenzer scrooge.

This is way late but, um *return

Returning this video from Sift Talk - return requested by gorgonheap.

This video has been discarded due to negative votes by members.